Local Melbourne Florida Lawyer Joins President and CFHA in Honoring OASIS Founders
When OASIS founders Tess Brady-Heribacka and Erin Hutchings first met in 2008, they had no idea that their budding friendship would lead to a lifetime of service, public recognition and eventually, even to the White House.
Melbourne, United States – November 8, 2017 /MarketersMedia/ —
Operation America Standing in Support (OASIS) founders Tess Brady-Heribacka and Erin Hutchings first met in 2008, when a mutual friend asked each of the military moms to help build a new home for a disabled veteran in Orlando. Both of the women were struggling with their children being deployed.
The two women soon realized that they shared a common piece of solace in their ability to continue to show their sons a mother’s love in the form of care packages and notes. They also found that these reminders from home were a true morale booster for the troops but that many deployed service members lacked the family and friends to send them these little bits of love. From this newfound understanding, OASIS was born.
Operation America Standing in Support is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization based in central Florida. Its mission, in the beginning, was to improve the general morale and welfare of troops currently deployed serving our country at war in the form of themed care packages and card-writing campaigns. Thanks to the strong public support found in the Brevard County area, its mission has grown. It now offers support to service members when returning home on R&R and after finishing their deployments. It helps with welcome home parties, gets tickets to sporting events and local venues, and hosts other celebrations.
As Brady-Heribacka stated, “Experiencing the impact to morale for my sons serving at war by sending packages to both of them and their fellow soldiers made me realize how important it was to send a box of love from home to be shared by all. Co-founding OASIS gave everyone an opportunity to show their support for our troops. Being a soldier isn’t an easy task. Showing appreciation for all the sacrifice they are making is something we the people can do.”
While Brady-Heribacka and Hutchings began their endeavor without any thought of personal recognition, their efforts have not gone unnoticed. Brady-Heribacka was recently awarded the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her thousands of hours of service dedicated to helping the morale of our nation’s service men and women. Together, the two founders of OASIS will be honored on Nov. 2 by the Central Florida Humanitarians (CFH) at the organization’s annual awards gala at the Hilton Melbourne Rialto Place.
Melbourne attorney and local community leader Brad Sinclair had this to say about the pair, “When I was younger, there was a phrase that you often heard that went ‘They also serve who sit and wait.’ These two ladies prove you don’t have to simply sit and wait. There is always a way to contribute to the common good. There are literally thousands of American service members who don’t have a stateside support system behind them. For many, that is what led them to the armed services to begin with: the desire to belong. These two wonderful mothers have taken it upon themselves to adopt every one of these young men and women, and they deserve every accolade we can bestow upon them.”
For more information or to make a reservation to attend the Central Florida Humanitarian Awards Gala, call 321-323-4460 or 321-615-8111.
Contact Info:
Name: Scot Small
Organization: Sinclair Law
Address: 5465 N US Highway 1 Melbourne FL 32940
Phone: 1-888-722-1974
For more information, please visit http://www.sinclairlaw.com
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